Philippe Pierlot
Philippe Pierlot (* 1958 in Liège ) is a Belgian gambist and conductor specializing in historical performance practice .
Life
Philippe Pierlot, son of the architect of the same name, learned to play the recorder, guitar and lute as an autodidact at the age of 12 . He learned to play the viola da gamba from Wieland Kuijken . In the 1980s he was a teacher for this instrument at the Maastricht Conservatory and in 1980 founded the “Ricercar Consort” with François Fernandez and Bernard Foccroulle . With his now over 50 CD recordings with this ensemble for the record label Ricercar , which was founded at the same time with the Belgian music historian Jerôme Lejeune and Bernard Foccroulle , he made many unknown masterpieces by almost forgotten composers available to a broad public.
His repertoire includes contemporary works, some of which are personally dedicated to him. He is also one of the few performers who have mastered the baryton , Prince Esterhazy's favorite string instrument, for which Joseph Haydn composed around 150 works.
Pierlot was professor for viol at the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen until 2006 and currently teaches at the conservatories in Brussels and The Hague. Together with his fellow musicians François Fernandez and Rainer Zipperling , he founded the record label Flora in 1991 .
Discography
From his extensive discography recording series are German baroque music and German baroque cantatas , the complete vocal works by Nicolaus Bruhns , the complete works of Matthias Weckmann and the complete recording of the work for viol by Marin Marais (1995) to mention. In 1999 he performed the last composed opera by Marais, a work that has not been performed for 300 years and in which some lost voices were re-composed by him. In 2001 he made the complete recording of the Grands Motets by the baroque composer Henri Dumont, also from the Liege area .
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| SURNAME | Pierlot, Philippe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian gambist and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liege |